What shows were you banned from watching as a child?

[dhinojosa]

What shows were you banned from watching as a child?

One of mine was Miami Vice after a few years of watching it. They had a scene where they were panning the streets of Miami. They approached one scene where a street sign said "XXX Girls" and that was it. My mom went balistic, though the whole thing was innocuous. I had to sneak watch Miami Vice from there on out. The thing was I thinking was I was either 16 or 17, within the legal age to rent adult material.

Oh well.

[AngryAmish]

1. Exorcist

little AA had to go to bed early that night.

on edit, it was a movie. Shows? None that I can remember, but I am old and tv was a lot cleaner.

[Shoeempress]

2. Lassie, I'd sob for hours. Wasn't allowed to read Black Beauty until I

at least 12 for the same reason. Guess I've always been a sucker for animals.

[dhinojosa]

3. WOW!

Must've been a reason?

[Shoeempress]

6. They always did cliff hanger endings with Lassie in trouble.

Then you had to wait a week to see if Lassie was ok. I was very little and never realized Lassie would be ok, cuz the show was named after her.

[Blue-Jay]

4. None that I'm aware of.

I mostly watched Warner Brother cartoons and old sci-fi & horror movies anyhow.

[ghostsofgiants]

5. The Simpsons, until I was 11 or 12, I guess

My mom still hates that I watch it.

[sasquatch]

35. Me too

There was a commercial for it where Bart said "Thanks for nothing God" and my Dad said we weren't allowed to watch that show.

[ghostsofgiants]

38. My mom just thinks the whole point of the show is...

Teaching kids to be disobediant.

[Left_Winger]

7. None

But there wasn't much on back then; there were only three channels (ABC, CBS, NBC)... I can even remember when PBS was inaugurated. OMG, I'm I that old?

[jedicord]

8. The Ed Sullivan Show when the Beatles were on it.

Rock 'n roll is from the devil, dontcha know.

Should have seen my dad's crap fit when my brother came back from Vietnam and my dad caught me, my sister and my brother dancing to CCR's "Heard it from the Grapevine".

BTW, I was hooked on R&R from then on!

[tridim]

9. MTV

I still don't know why, because my parents were not fundies at all. All it accomplished was to keep me out of the popular music loop (mostly the 80's British invasion) for a few years.

[misanthrope]

34. Maybe because it...

...stifles creativity, the listeners' personal interpretation of music and is little more than another hypno-marketing device designed to "SELL, SELL, SELL."

But that's just a guess.

[trackfan]

10. None. But with 7 people and 1BW TV, and being the youngest,

I didn't get to watch much of what I wanted. Plus, there were only 7 channels, and not much on those.

[Wapsie B]

11. There weren't any real racy shows on

when I was little. There was no cable TV or VCRs or DVDs.

[Radio_Lady]

27. Me, too. I was born in 1939, so TV came along in the late 40s and

early 50s. We had local news and weather, local kids shows -- see attached photo of "First Mate" (me) and the "Skipper" in 1957 on "Popeye Playhouse" (Miami, Florida) Then there was "Uncle" Milton Berle, Your Show of Shows, Ed Sullivan, Howdy Doody Time, etc.

Many's the night we just marveled at the test pattern. The screen was about 10 inches by 10 inches. Seems so long ago to me!

[Sequoia]

12. Johnny Cash, Batman, Dark Shadows

and Shock Theatre (Saturday B type B&W movies, which I love!). I was raised in a Fundie school so none of that. They thought JC was a prison person. When I was watching him the lady who looked after us came in and turned it off, and I said "B-b-but, he's accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his saviour and...." fell on deaf ears, even though that was the line they always spouted in church.

[WCGreen]

13. Laugh In.....

Just the first season though

[Hugin]

14. Star Trek

It was on after my bedtime.

True story...

My Dad would sometimes come and get me and we'd
watch it on the B/W T.V. in the kitchen.

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. same deal here except for me it was the muppets

[peacebird]

15. The Three Stooges

actually we weren't allowed to watch TV much at all - it was for the adults until I was about 10.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

29. I was in here on the computer

(on DU, natch) a few weeks ago when I heard sounds of the Stooges coming from the TV. Went into the LR and found Mr. 'pede totally engrossed. He'd never seen the Stooges before, or so he said. I find that hard to believe, but he did grow up in New England (fois gras eatin' elitist, I guess :eyes: - problably all the air time was taken up with polo).

[Dave Reynolds]

16. None.

Other than anything that came on after bedtime.

[Initech]

17. Married W/Children and Beavis And Butt-head

But I still continued to watch those shows anyways! :evilgrin:

So much better than watching Friends... :puke:

[LeftyMom]

18. nothing

Both my parents were really cool about talking to me about TV, books and movies and letting me know that I could always talk to them if something bothered me.

I was pretty good about knowing my own limits and my generally skeptical nature meant I didn't run into too many problems.

[Not_Giving_Up]

20. He-Man, She-Ra, Thundercats...

I know there were more, but those are the ones that I remember sneaking at friends houses. You see, my fundie folks said those shows were demonic and satanic. It now drives them up a wall that my children are allowed Harry Potter.

[vikegirl]

21. Charlie's Angels

The thing was I was like only 3 or 4 and didn't understand sexual stuff anyway. :shrug:

[Silverhair]

22. None.

But back then Red Skelton was the most risque thing on air.

[enigmatic]

23. None

I can't think of any..

[RebelOne]

24. When I was a child there weren't any controversial shows.

Only Mickey Mouse Show, Howdy Doody, Ed Sullivan (Oh, forgot about the first Elvis appearance), Lone Ranger, Sky King, etc.

[stlsaxman]

25. 3 Stooges...

but after we raised a stink we were allowed to watch pretty much everything that was on. And there was good stuff on back then, Ernie Kovacks, Soupy Sales, Smothers Brothers, Addams Family, Secret Agent Man, The Prisoner (my personal fave), The Avengers...

and y'know what? I appreciate the Stooges now as an adult but they gotta be Curly episodes... mostly i think mom was right about them, not that great.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

26. The Untouchables

The one with Robert Stack...

Too violent, I was told.

Good for them.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

28. None

Didn't get a TV until I was 5 (1953). Loved Dragnet, Jackie Gleason, Groucho Marx. Westerns, detective shows, Hitchcock, anything was ok. Most fun was watching Silent Service (a WWII submarine show) and the Friday Night Fights with my dad.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

30. This will blow your socks off: a Formula One race.

The 1974 United States Grad Prix. I was 8. It was the final race in the season, in which Emerson Fittipaldi would eventually clinch the title.

In mid-race, I am called for dinner, eat unusually fast (obviously) and for some unfathomable reason my parents prevent me from going back to the TV room. I am understandably pissed off, but they eventually let me back at the TV and I see the race end and Emmo become champion. Nothing unusual.

Later I learn that a driver was killed. His car went THROUGH the guard-rail and he was decapitated. I see a pic of the wreck, and there's the top of a helmet and, some two meters away, an arm pointing up, fingers closed as if still gripping the wheel. His name was Helmut Koinigg. He was Austrian.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

31. You Can't Do That on Television.

I watched it anyway, but my mom HATED that show. She thought it was just gross and a bad influence. It was hilarious when she'd walk in and there I'd be watching it. I never did what she told me. :evilgrin:
Duckie

[JohnnyBoots]

36. Funny to think that is where Alannis Morrisette started

[Sugar Smack]

32. My bro and I would watch The Dukes of hazzard-

And then "Dallas" would come on. WTF? We never got to watch "Dallas".

[Spirochete]

33. None

as long as they didn't come on after bedtime. There were shows that were disapproved of - like the Three Stooges, Combat, most westerns, but not forbidden.

[hyphenate]

37. None

The only time we had any discussion about what was on TV was on Tuesday nights when both Daktari and Combat were on at the same time, and my brother and I fought continuously over which we got to watch. We finally alternated the schedule which helped, and years later, I actually got fond of Combat in syndication.

Nothing was off limits to us, but then, 60s TV was fairly docile. Gunfights looked fake, even amorous couples slept in separate beds, and the harshest word on TV had to be "gosh darn it."

I grew up wanting to be a spy like Kelly Robinson and Scotty, or Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, or James West and Artemus Gordon. Sometimes I wanted to command my own starship as well, or be a jewel thief who had the likes of Alexander Mundy as their paramour. The 60s were fantasy driven, and most of us simply enjoyed the fantasies that helped make them that way. :)

[Tom Kitten]

39. Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In

I learned about it because a lot of the kids in sixth grade starting saying things like "verrrry interesting" and "here come de judge" and "sock it to me"...Of course I wanted to watch it, and we did, for one and a half shows before my mom changed the channel to "Here's Lucy" or something...

Next week she what we wanted to watched and I said "Laugh-In" and she said "NO! That's a dirty show!"

Me: :(

Well, other than that, I cannot think of any...

[LoZoccolo]

40. /Bizzare/

This was a Canadian comedy show starring John Byner that they'd show on Showtime. It was where Super Dave Osbourne got popularized. I saw it a few times, I think in censored form on another station, when I'd go watch TV at my relatives' in Illinois.

So when we got Showtime at my house, I wanted to watch it, and had it on at like 7pm or something. Well I didn't know they had nudity on the Showtime version, so this woman took her shirt off in one of the sketches and my mom went ballistic and now look at me.

[LoZoccolo]

42. P. S.: This was kind-of around the time of the Meese Commission...

...which was basically the start of me becoming a Democrat. I am not kidding.

I told you "now look at me", didn't I?

[mac56]

41. My dad wouldn't let us watch "The Munsters".

No idea why. He let us watch "The Addams Family", which I think was a better show, but I suspect that wasn't his reasoning.

[dhinojosa]

44. Hmmm.

Weird

[Deja Q]

43. Apart from porn, nothing.

I usually knew what was too much .

[henslee]

45. midnight blue.